Sentences with phrase «story about race»

Later this week you will be able to read my interviews with other New York educators who figure in my story about the Race to the Top and what it meant for New York.

A - The Host Rated PG - 13 for some sensuality and violence Available on DVD and Blu - ray Filmmakers might have struck gold with Stephanie Meyer's Twilight series but their efforts were an ultimate fail with this story about a race of aliens who have taken over the world and the small group of human resistors.

«Representation matters, and in order to be a part of that movement and making sure that there aren't just stories about white men and white women, you don't have to sit down and conceive of a story about race specifically,» said Hart.

But Inherent Vice tells stories about race and minorities, capitalism and inequality, and America at large, a bit like how John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath has plenty to say about the modern US from the vantage point of the 1930s.

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So, when I questioned him about where he did it, when he achieved his racing license, and the different competitions he may have entered, his story completely fell apart.

Familiarity breeds stories: the way you think about race, the way and where you grew up, your relatives» ideas and experiences on race all influence what people bring to their ideas about race.

The Harvard law professor, who is locked in a tight race against Republican Scott Brown, has lost ground in recent weeks as she struggles to shake off stories about whether she used her unconfirmed Native American heritage to bolster her academic career.

There, the comedian tells stories about his early years on stage, drag racing on Woodward Avenue, and his brief stint in prison for drug violations, before landing his iconic role on the ABC sitcom «Home Improvement.»

This whole story is about race and for you, the author to ask us to follow in his teachings and not his color?

You have taken a story about a community pulling together, drawing strength and inspiration from one another regardless of race and drawn it into a petty argument.

I love the way CS Lewis explained that ``... He (God) sent the human race what I call good dreams; I mean those queer stories scattered all through the heathen religions about god who dies and comes to life again and, by his dead, has somehow given new life to men.»

Would love to hear from you on this work: When we hear the term ethics, our minds often race to stories we have heard about bank fraud and other....

«The media is pushing and pushing to make this case about race because it's a good story.

If you could go back and see the idiot they based the Jesus story on, you'd see someone who would spit on you for being a non-Jew and who would probably snarl about how his race is superior to yours despite being saddled with ridiculous random rules handed down by fat greasy slobs of rabbis for hundreds of years.

I loved to hear about your story on how these little potatoes were invented, sometimes it is smallest thing that gets your mind racing with culinary ideas.

The stories told about this man (one goal, nearly achieved, was to race past the police dept in Woodbury 100 times going over 100mph) were so many and indicated a love for life I couldn't help but admire to the nth degree.

You've probably heard stories of ultramarathoners eating just about everything while they race.

In Fort Hood young Robert also found a way to entertain his parents: When he was about eight years old, they say, he would stand in the front yard and throw a football as high as he could over their one - story house, and then race around to the backyard and catch the ball before it hit the ground.

Then stories will appear about tighter security at tracks and in - house investigations, but all that will merely be a matter of locking the barns after the races have been stolen.

Corbett is a little hobbled after a 100 - mile race a week ago blistered the pads of her near bulletproof feet (she has an especially gruesome story about her big toe exploding after she trimmed the nail).

If Fernando could match the precedent set by Smith, we have approximately 86,500 more stories to come about what racing series he'll be competing in.

My dad's got some stories about Pokey, about drag racing and all that, but that's was a big one for me personally.

Well, Alonso's team - mate Vandoorne tried to capitalise on the story by joking about missing the Hungarian GP to race at the 24 Hours of Spa.

This book not only highlights important issues for those who have or plan to adopt a child of a different race and / or culture but it also offers a compelling story about a young woman who spends most of her life searching for answers about her past, her identity, and where she belongs.

I love everything about stories like this - courage, determination, a hard race to run with a sweet reward at the finish line.

There is a great story to be told about race politics and progress in the Age of Obama both in the UK and US; this article does not do it justice.

He did team up with the Lazio to get Levy The Bold out of the race, and he and his «Friends» love to leak stories about Ed Cox.

Since her husband, Carl, won the Republican nomination for governor of New York last week, the only story in the race as compelling as his upset victory has been their personal back story: that her husband not only had an affair, not only fathered a child with that other woman, but also told his wife of 40 years about it all the same week that their 29 - year - old son, Patrick, was killed in a car accident.

The shocker came later that night when I was told that Andrew Whitman, of all people, was breathlessly introduced on FiOS1NEws with, ironically, a «First on FiOS1» report on «Major developments in race for Westchester Executive» leading off with George Latimer in studio taking questions from Whitman about my story, citing Talk of the Sound as a source, using my content and basing his questions on my reporting.

It seems to me that this was a planted story that's become self - fulfilling; starting from so - called poll results that were funded by Turner's own campaign not a reputable, independent source of data about support in the district, and treated as though fact by a slew of subsequent articles about this race...

Editor's Note: A Politico story about the New York governor's race by Jimmy Vielkind starts with, «Some people are even floating the name of George Pataki,» referencing the fact that former Gov. Pataki might enter this year's race for governor.

Fueled by competitive Bronx Council races and the debate about development at the Kingsbridge Armory (which turned into one of the biggest stories in the city last December), we topped out at 877 posts.

Maffei introduced Clinton with a story about a phone conversation the two had after Maffei lost his first race for Congress.

«There's always a story about next year's races at this time of year,» he said.

The campaign similarly did not respond to a request for comment earlier in the week for a story about the primary race against Rivera.

Trainer, health coach, nutritional therapy practitioner and triathlete, Debbie Potts, shares her personal story about living life as a race each day until she found herself struggling to stay awake, suffering from muscle fatigue on her training workouts, and suddenly gaining thirty pounds.

And that was so neat about the lady you unknowingly paced — i love those little extra stories from races, they make the memories even more epic

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It is not about the race, it is about your story.

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There are plenty of success stories related to those who managed to actually find love on the site and those who are open - minded about dating people from different religion and race should definitely check out the site.

While the film touches upon its various political and cultural issues (In addition to the give - and - take relationships between reporters and politicians, there's a lot about the overt and subtle sexism that Kat receives as the first and, at the time, only woman serving a newspaper publisher), the film plays mostly and best as a race - against - the - clock thriller of sorts, in which the obstacles are as imposing as the might of the U.S. government and as low - key as deadlines or being beaten to a story by a rival paper.

Also screened: Sadako Vs. Kayako (Grade: B --RRB-, an entertaining, teen - friendly marriage of the The Ring and The Grudge mythologies that (thank God) has a sense of humor about itself, even though its final confrontation is less than satisfying; Dearest Sister (Grade: C +), a poetic (and rather slow) meditation on class conflict couched in a ghost story from Laotian director Mattie Do; and Down Under (Grade: B --RRB-, a Superbad - style profane coming - of - age comedy set against the backdrop of the Cronulla race riots that took place in Sydney, Australia in Christmas 2005.

More than that, though, he and Cole have also manufactured the MCU's most explicitly political film, the pair's story talking about issues of race, protectionism, humanitarianism, police brutality, political fascism and immigration policy that comes alive as if it was pulled from today's most recent headlines.

If only Emmerich could figure out how to better integrate these cool effects shots into his films, rather just drop them in the middle of some tedious story about a scientist racing against the clock to blah blah blah...

Dern talked about his career and what «Nebraska» has meant to him in the cover story for OscarWrap: The Race Begins.

August Wilson's play Fences is a timeless — and therefore timely — story about an African American man dealing with race relations, marriage, fatherhood and a past that was never quite what he wanted it to be.

The film about race: «Get Out» harks back to the situation depicted in «Guess Who's Coming to Dinner,» with its story of a white woman bringing home her black boyfriend to meet her white liberal parents.